(n.) A book containing the words of a language, arranged alphabetically, with explanations of their meanings; a lexicon; a vocabulary; a wordbook.
(n.) Hence, a book containing the words belonging to any system or province of knowledge, arranged alphabetically; as, a dictionary of medicine or of botany; a biographical dictionary.
Example Sentences:
(1) The likes of almond, blackberry and crocus first made way for analogue, block graph and celebrity in the Oxford Junior Dictionary in 2007, with protests at the time around the loss of a host of religious words such as bishop, saint and sin.
(2) Finally, the authors used the US Department of Labor Dictionary of Occupational Titles to obtain characterizations of the physical demands and knee-bending stress associated with occupations and to study the relation between physical demands of jobs and osteoarthritis of the knee.
(3) In the era of Donald Trump and Brexit, Oxford Dictionaries has declared “post-truth” to be its international word of the year.
(4) Our Feature Dictionary supports phrase equivalents for features, feature interactions, feature classifications, and translations to the binary features generated by the expert during knowledge creation.
(5) The dictionary was able to record all the morbidity clinically seen with these three treatment schemes.
(6) Despite the dictionary definition of "craving" (a strong desire), two studies indicate that a substantial percentage of persons with alcohol and drug problems use the word "craving" to mean any desire or urge, even a weak one, to use substances.
(7) Unstructured speech samples from 20 institutionalized and 20 noninstitutionalized retarded children were employed using the computerized General Inquirer System and the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary.
(8) Its dictionary definition is “a Scots word meaning scrotum, in Scots vernacular a term of endearment but in English could be taken as an insult”.
(9) According to Samuel Lewis's 19th-century Topographical Dictionary of Wales, "several females" drowned while bathing there.
(10) Tony Abbott’s threat to “shirtfront” the Russian president during an international summit this month has prompted a dictionary to broaden its definition of the word beyond its Aussie rules meaning.
(11) Measures of the acceptability of employee drug testing were obtained from a sample of college students (N = 371) and a second sample of nontraditional, older college students (N = 112) and were correlated with job-analysis data from the Position Analysis Questionnaire (PAQ) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT) databases, and with measures of perceived danger from impaired performance in each job.
(12) The Urban Dictionary defines hipsters as “a subculture of men and women, typically in their 20s and 30s, that value independent thinking, counter-culture, progressive politics”.
(13) The data obtained in the investigation indicate that the term has acquired a specific connotation within the international nursing context and that specific defined attributes distinguishes it from the broad and general definition found in standard dictionaries.
(14) The dictionary defines colonialism as one country taking control of another to exploit its resources or people.
(15) Every couple of minutes brought forth another word from the No-Turning-Back dictionary: "hard", "determined", "secure".
(16) Merkel’s office has not commented on her dictionary nomination so far, though they might arguably have been able to insist the word was rude or discriminatory, on the same grounds that the nominated word “Alpha Kevin”, meaning the “thickest person of all” was removed from Langenscheidt list, after a reported spate of complaints from people called Kevin, or their parents.
(17) Post-truth has now been included in OxfordDictionaries.com, and editors will monitor its future usage to see if it will be included in future editions of the Oxford English Dictionary.
(18) Acute came from acus , Latin for needle, later denoting pointed things, so cute at first meant “acute, clever, keen-witted, sharp, shrewd”, according to the 1933 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, which doesn’t suggest the term could describe visual appearance.
(19) The Feature Dictionary supports three methods for feature representation: (1) for binary features, (2) for continuous valued features, and (3) for derived features.
(20) Yet the headline piece of provocation was threaded in the visitors’ colours, and foreign media were quickly scrambling for the history books – and the dictionary – upon deciphering the word printed at the bottom of it.
Lexicographic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Lexicographical
Example Sentences:
(1) The predictive accuracy of four decision-making models--the weighted compensatory choice model, the unweighted compensatory choice model, the lexicographic model, and the conjunctive model--also was determined.
(2) Lexicographers, too, spent time listening, reading, watching and tracking the words of the Iraq war.
(3) The algorithm is based on lexicographical ordering of fragments.
(4) The great lexicographer, of course, is as fat in fame as ever, though more for his piquant remarks to Boswell than for his own writings.
(5) To the lexicographer, the artist, and the reformer, we can add the colonial administrator.
(6) One of the most readily apparent weaknesses in the field of medicolegal studies has been our inability to develop consistent and lexicographically defensible descriptive titles for the field itself.
(7) Comparisons of the distributions of strategies for each group showed that most gifted children integrated dimensional information by addition and many average children used lexicographic strategies.
(8) Despite these methodological improvements, many children, especially 5- to 7-year-olds, evidenced use of centration and lexicographic strategies, suggesting that these classifications are not simply an artifact of problem sampling.
(9) Robert Jay – QC and noted lexicographer – gives his withering take on Jeremy Hunt's use of the word "impactful" June "WMD."
(10) And lexicographers will tell you that language change is similar to regime change: you can plan and prognosticate all you like, but in the end you will always be surprised.
(11) Mentally retarded children relied on a single dimension of the balance scale, but they were more likely to use lexicographic strategies for the inclined plane.
(12) The search for a functional definition of the practice of psychiatry was perhaps at one time an academic or lexicographic exercise, but, with the advent of peer review, it has become a pragmatic matter deserving of earnest attention.
(13) Of course, lexicographers base new entries on the full range of a word's edited, public use; that is, a word's reported use.
(14) The lexicographic model, which postulates that a pharmacist will choose the practice site with the highest performance rating for the most important factor, was the most accurate predictor of respondents' initial practice sites.
(15) A "lively public radio show about words, language, and how we use them" is how this show is described, and its hosts – Martha Barnette , an author, and Grant Barrett , a lexicographer – brilliantly cover everything to do with language: slang, colloquialisms, grammar, word debates, style and usage, dialects and even archaisms.